Pezon, the lion tamer, died at the age of seventy-three. He was a highly popular character here, and for more than forty years the fairs near the Bastile -- those of Clichy, Montmartre ...

Her father had been killed, and her sister wound up dying ... Maria even became a trained lion tamer and used her father's reputation to boost the appeal of her acts. She claimed that she was ...

According to her obituary by The Guardian, Gladys became a lion tamer for Bailey Brothers’ Circus, where she met and married John Aloysius Wall. They traveled around the world. The couple had ...